Desktop not load correct when login

[makis_best]

Hi

When I login to my desktop all I can see it is a grey screen and not showing everything.
Also my applications not running...  They open and suddenly close after seconds.

What can be the problem?

[PCNetSpec]

What happens if you turn off desktop effects ?

Menu > Settings > Peppermint Control Center > Desktop Effects (tab)

then remove the tick from:-

Enable desktop effects


You're gonna have to explain this a little better

Also my applications not running...  They open and suddenly close after seconds.

which applications ?

are you sure the application closed .. by checking in task manager ?

[clatterfordslim]

 The only time I had grey screen is when I've had Docky set up with all my Firefox launchers and apps, but realized that I still had to keep Firefox launchers on the desktop, to activate them properly in Docky.  With desktop icons set to no desktop icons in customize when you right click the desktop, will bring you back to a grey screen after booting back in.

Can you right click empty space on the desktop? Then left click customise, then left click Desktop Settings. The Desktop Layout box at the top should say

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Show desktop icons on primary monitor only

If it says

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No desktop icons

Then you need to change it back to

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Show desktop icons on primary monitor only

Could you please also in a Terminal type

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inxi -Fz

Copy and paste everything you see back here please? Do not worry it tells us what hardware you're running and nothing else. It gives us a clue as to what could be the problem, with your apps suddenly closing. 

On the picture of your Terminal, I see you have 7 flatpak apps and 6 snap packages. I'm wondering if it is any of those that are failing to stay open?

[makis_best]

The only time I had grey screen is when I've had Docky set up with all my Firefox launchers and apps, but realized that I still had to keep Firefox launchers on the desktop, to activate them properly in Docky.  With desktop icons set to no desktop icons in customize when you right click the desktop, will bring you back to a grey screen after booting back in.

Can you right click empty space on the desktop? Then left click customise, then left click Desktop Settings. The Desktop Layout box at the top should say

Code: [Select]

Show desktop icons on primary monitor only

If it says

Code: [Select]

No desktop icons

Then you need to change it back to

Code: [Select]

Show desktop icons on primary monitor only

Could you please also in a Terminal type

Code: [Select]

inxi -Fz

Copy and paste everything you see back here please? Do not worry it tells us what hardware you're running and nothing else. It gives us a clue as to what could be the problem, with your apps suddenly closing. 

On the picture of your Terminal, I see you have 7 flatpak apps and 6 snap packages. I'm wondering if it is any of those that are failing to stay open?

I can't do right click on empty space on Desktop.
Everything load slow when I execute it first time but not when I execute it again.

Applications like chrome and vnc start and then suddenly close no matter how many times I try to reopen them.
Even if I check on Task Manager the application is killed.

After running inxi -Fz

I get

makis_best@MS-7A34 ~ $ inxi -Fz
System:    Host: MS-7A34 Kernel: 5.0.0-29-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: N/A
           Distro: Peppermint Ten
Machine:   Device: desktop Mobo: Micro-Star model: B350 GAMING PLUS (MS-7A34) v: 4.0 serial: N/A
           UEFI [Legacy]: American Megatrends v: M.F0 date: 01/23/2019
CPU:       6 core AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Six-Core (-MT-MCP-) cache: 3072 KB
           clock speeds: max: 3200 MHz 1: 1377 MHz 2: 1377 MHz 3: 1377 MHz
           4: 1377 MHz 5: 1377 MHz 6: 1377 MHz 7: 1316 MHz 8: 1308 MHz 9: 1319 MHz
           10: 1319 MHz 11: 1798 MHz 12: 1412 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Baffin [Radeon RX 460/560D / Pro 450/455/460/555/555X/560/560X]
           Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.20.4 ) driver: amdgpu
           Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD Radeon RX 460 Graphics (POLARIS11, DRM 3.27.0, 5.0.0-29-generic, LLVM 9.0.0)
           version: 4.5 Mesa 19.3.0-devel (git-b9994cb 2019-10-01 bionic-oibaf-ppa)
Audio:     Card-1 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 17h (Models 00h-0fh) HD Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel
           Card-2 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Baffin HDMI/DP Audio [Radeon RX 550 640SP / RX 560/560X]
           driver: snd_hda_intel
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k5.0.0-29-generic
Network:   Card: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCIE Gigabit Ethernet Controller
           driver: r8169
           IF: enp25s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 2496.5GB (2.3% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: Patriot_Spark size: 256.1GB
           ID-2: /dev/sdb model: ADATA_SU650 size: 240.1GB
           ID-3: /dev/sdc model: ST31000340AS size: 1000.2GB
           ID-4: /dev/sdd model: ST31000340AS size: 1000.2GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 234G used: 14G (7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
           ID-2: /home size: 916G used: 33G (4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdc1
           ID-3: swap-1 size: 9.12GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sdb5
RAID:      No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: No active sensors found. Have you configured your sensors yet? mobo: N/A gpu: 33.0
Info:      Processes: 291 Uptime: 11 min Memory: 1229.9/16052.1MB
           Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.3.56

[PCNetSpec]

Is this a new problem, or has it been like this from when you installed Peppermint ?

[makis_best]

I use peppermint almost a year... the problem start after I did sudo apt autoclean

[PCNetSpec]

You're going to need to go through the apt history logs at:-

/var/log/apt/history.log

to see if you can figure out what got removed.

[makis_best]

Actually I am new to Ubuntu and I don't know what to do with the log.
I can only ready it.

Start-Date: 2019-10-01  19:23:20
Requested-By: makis_best (1000)
Install: libgtkglext1:amd64 (1.2.0-8, automatic)
End-Date: 2019-10-01  19:23:21

Start-Date: 2019-10-02  22:50:57
Commandline: apt upgrade
Requested-By: makis_best (1000)
Upgrade: libfaudio0:amd64 (19.09-bionic~1ppa1, 19.10-bionic~1ppa2), libfaudio0:i386 (19.09-bionic~1ppa1, 19.10-bionic~1ppa2)
End-Date: 2019-10-02  22:50:58

Start-Date: 2019-10-02  22:53:53
Commandline: apt-get upgrade
Requested-By: makis_best (1000)
Upgrade: libegl-mesa0:amd64 (19.3~git1910010730.b9994c~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910021930.e19d1e~oibaf~b), libglapi-mesa:amd64 (19.3~git1910010730.b9994c~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910021930.e19d1e~oibaf~b), libglapi-mesa:i386 (19.3~git1910010730.b9994c~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910021930.e19d1e~oibaf~b), libxatracker2:amd64 (19.3~git1910010730.b9994c~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910021930.e19d1e~oibaf~b), libegl1-mesa:amd64 (19.3~git1910010730.b9994c~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910021930.e19d1e~oibaf~b), libgbm1:amd64 (19.3~git1910010730.b9994c~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910021930.e19d1e~oibaf~b), libwayland-egl1-mesa:amd64 (19.3~git1910010730.b9994c~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910021930.e19d1e~oibaf~b), libgl1-mesa-dri:amd64 (19.3~git1910010730.b9994c~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910021930.e19d1e~oibaf~b), libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 (19.3~git1910010730.b9994c~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910021930.e19d1e~oibaf~b), libosmesa6:amd64 (19.3~git1910010730.b9994c~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910021930.e19d1e~oibaf~b), libosmesa6:i386 (19.3~git1910010730.b9994c~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910021930.e19d1e~oibaf~b), libgl1-mesa-glx:amd64 (19.3~git1910010730.b9994c~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910021930.e19d1e~oibaf~b), libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 (19.3~git1910010730.b9994c~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910021930.e19d1e~oibaf~b), mesa-vdpau-drivers:amd64 (19.3~git1910010730.b9994c~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910021930.e19d1e~oibaf~b), mesa-vdpau-drivers:i386 (19.3~git1910010730.b9994c~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910021930.e19d1e~oibaf~b), mesa-va-drivers:i386 (19.3~git1910010730.b9994c~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910021930.e19d1e~oibaf~b), libglx-mesa0:amd64 (19.3~git1910010730.b9994c~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910021930.e19d1e~oibaf~b), libglx-mesa0:i386 (19.3~git1910010730.b9994c~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910021930.e19d1e~oibaf~b)
End-Date: 2019-10-02  22:53:59

Start-Date: 2019-10-03  19:00:33
Commandline: apt upgrade
Requested-By: makis_best (1000)
Upgrade: netplan.io:amd64 (0.97-0ubuntu1~18.04.1, 0.98-0ubuntu1~18.04.1), brave-browser:amd64 (0.68.142, 0.69.132), libegl-mesa0:amd64 (19.3~git1910021930.e19d1e~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910030730.a1a567~oibaf~b), libglapi-mesa:amd64 (19.3~git1910021930.e19d1e~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910030730.a1a567~oibaf~b), libglapi-mesa:i386 (19.3~git1910021930.e19d1e~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910030730.a1a567~oibaf~b), libxatracker2:amd64 (19.3~git1910021930.e19d1e~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910030730.a1a567~oibaf~b), libegl1-mesa:amd64 (19.3~git1910021930.e19d1e~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910030730.a1a567~oibaf~b), libgbm1:amd64 (19.3~git1910021930.e19d1e~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910030730.a1a567~oibaf~b), nplan:amd64 (0.97-0ubuntu1~18.04.1, 0.98-0ubuntu1~18.04.1), libwayland-egl1-mesa:amd64 (19.3~git1910021930.e19d1e~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910030730.a1a567~oibaf~b), libgl1-mesa-dri:amd64 (19.3~git1910021930.e19d1e~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910030730.a1a567~oibaf~b), libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 (19.3~git1910021930.e19d1e~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910030730.a1a567~oibaf~b), libosmesa6:amd64 (19.3~git1910021930.e19d1e~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910030730.a1a567~oibaf~b), libosmesa6:i386 (19.3~git1910021930.e19d1e~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910030730.a1a567~oibaf~b), libgl1-mesa-glx:amd64 (19.3~git1910021930.e19d1e~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910030730.a1a567~oibaf~b), libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 (19.3~git1910021930.e19d1e~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910030730.a1a567~oibaf~b), mesa-vdpau-drivers:amd64 (19.3~git1910021930.e19d1e~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910030730.a1a567~oibaf~b), mesa-vdpau-drivers:i386 (19.3~git1910021930.e19d1e~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910030730.a1a567~oibaf~b), mesa-va-drivers:i386 (19.3~git1910021930.e19d1e~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910030730.a1a567~oibaf~b), tzdata:amd64 (2019b-0ubuntu0.18.04, 2019c-0ubuntu0.18.04), libglx-mesa0:amd64 (19.3~git1910021930.e19d1e~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910030730.a1a567~oibaf~b), libglx-mesa0:i386 (19.3~git1910021930.e19d1e~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910030730.a1a567~oibaf~b)
End-Date: 2019-10-03  19:00:48

Start-Date: 2019-10-04  00:50:30
Commandline: apt upgrade
Requested-By: makis_best (1000)
Upgrade: libegl-mesa0:amd64 (19.3~git1910030730.a1a567~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910031930.d86140~oibaf~b), libglapi-mesa:amd64 (19.3~git1910030730.a1a567~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910031930.d86140~oibaf~b), libglapi-mesa:i386 (19.3~git1910030730.a1a567~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910031930.d86140~oibaf~b), libxatracker2:amd64 (19.3~git1910030730.a1a567~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910031930.d86140~oibaf~b), libegl1-mesa:amd64 (19.3~git1910030730.a1a567~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910031930.d86140~oibaf~b), libgbm1:amd64 (19.3~git1910030730.a1a567~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910031930.d86140~oibaf~b), libwayland-egl1-mesa:amd64 (19.3~git1910030730.a1a567~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910031930.d86140~oibaf~b), libgl1-mesa-dri:amd64 (19.3~git1910030730.a1a567~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910031930.d86140~oibaf~b), libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 (19.3~git1910030730.a1a567~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910031930.d86140~oibaf~b), libosmesa6:amd64 (19.3~git1910030730.a1a567~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910031930.d86140~oibaf~b), libosmesa6:i386 (19.3~git1910030730.a1a567~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910031930.d86140~oibaf~b), libgl1-mesa-glx:amd64 (19.3~git1910030730.a1a567~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910031930.d86140~oibaf~b), libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 (19.3~git1910030730.a1a567~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910031930.d86140~oibaf~b), mesa-vdpau-drivers:amd64 (19.3~git1910030730.a1a567~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910031930.d86140~oibaf~b), mesa-vdpau-drivers:i386 (19.3~git1910030730.a1a567~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910031930.d86140~oibaf~b), mesa-va-drivers:i386 (19.3~git1910030730.a1a567~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910031930.d86140~oibaf~b), libglx-mesa0:amd64 (19.3~git1910030730.a1a567~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910031930.d86140~oibaf~b), libglx-mesa0:i386 (19.3~git1910030730.a1a567~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910031930.d86140~oibaf~b)
End-Date: 2019-10-04  00:50:36

Start-Date: 2019-10-05  09:34:53
Commandline: apt upgrade
Requested-By: makis_best (1000)
Install: linux-headers-5.0.0-31:amd64 (5.0.0-31.33~18.04.1, automatic), linux-headers-5.0.0-31-generic:amd64 (5.0.0-31.33~18.04.1, automatic), linux-modules-extra-5.0.0-31-generic:amd64 (5.0.0-31.33~18.04.1, automatic), linux-modules-5.0.0-31-generic:amd64 (5.0.0-31.33~18.04.1, automatic), linux-image-5.0.0-31-generic:amd64 (5.0.0-31.33~18.04.1, automatic)
Upgrade: libegl-mesa0:amd64 (19.3~git1910031930.d86140~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910041930.3746ee~oibaf~b), linux-headers-generic-hwe-18.04:amd64 (5.0.0.29.86, 5.0.0.31.88), libxatracker2:amd64 (19.3~git1910031930.d86140~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910041930.3746ee~oibaf~b), libegl1-mesa:amd64 (19.3~git1910031930.d86140~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910041930.3746ee~oibaf~b), libgbm1:amd64 (19.3~git1910031930.d86140~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910041930.3746ee~oibaf~b), libwayland-egl1-mesa:amd64 (19.3~git1910031930.d86140~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910041930.3746ee~oibaf~b), linux-image-generic-hwe-18.04:amd64 (5.0.0.29.86, 5.0.0.31.88), linux-signed-generic-hwe-18.04:amd64 (5.0.0.29.86, 5.0.0.31.88), linux-generic-hwe-18.04:amd64 (5.0.0.29.86, 5.0.0.31.88), mesa-va-drivers:i386 (19.3~git1910031930.d86140~oibaf~b, 19.3~git1910050730.907c23~oibaf~b)
End-Date: 2019-10-05  09:35:21

[Slim.Fatz]

I use peppermint almost a year... the problem start after I did sudo apt autoclean

Hi makis_best,

When did you do this? The log does not show it (see entries starting with Commandline: which should show apt autoclean). Or is that all that exists in the log?  If so, you probably need to look into the older archived logs with names such as history.log.1.gz and histrory.log.2.gz

Regards,

-- Slim

[makis_best]

The log show only the info I post.
Where I can find the older logs?  (Path)

[Slim.Fatz]

Hi makis_best,

Same place as the one you already posted.

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/var/log/apt

Regards,

-- Slim

[makis_best]

Like what I am looking for into these logs?

[PCNetSpec]

If you reckon this issue onlt started after you ran a "apt autoclean"...

Search the logs for "apt autoclean" (as the Commandline:) and see what changes were made.

[makis_best]

OK.... 

I look at all five log files and I find only one apt autoremove command.... What I do after that?

Start-Date: 2019-09-25  21:24:30
Commandline: apt autoremove
Requested-By: makis_best (1000)
Remove: linux-headers-5.0.0-23:amd64 (5.0.0-23.24~18.04.1), linux-headers-5.0.0-25:amd64 (5.0.0-25.26~18.04.1), librevenge-0.0-0:amd64 (0.0.4-6ubuntu2), libcmis-0.5-5v5:amd64 (0.5.1+git20160603-3build2), libwpd-0.10-10:amd64 (0.10.2-2), libeot0:amd64 (0.01-5), libwps-0.4-4:amd64 (0.4.8-1), linux-image-5.0.0-23-generic:amd64 (5.0.0-23.24~18.04.1), libvisio-0.1-1:amd64 (0.1.6-1build1), libxmlsec1-nss:amd64 (1.2.25-1build1), libreoffice-style-galaxy:amd64 (1:6.3.1~rc2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1~lo1), libwpg-0.3-3:amd64 (0.3.1-3), linux-image-5.0.0-25-generic:amd64 (5.0.0-25.26~18.04.1), libodfgen-0.1-1:amd64 (0.1.6-2), liborcus-0.13-0:amd64 (0.13.4-2), linux-headers-5.0.0-23-generic:amd64 (5.0.0-23.24~18.04.1), libmwaw-0.3-3:amd64 (0.3.13-1), linux-modules-extra-5.0.0-23-generic:amd64 (5.0.0-23.24~18.04.1), libpagemaker-0.0-0:amd64 (0.0.4-1), linux-headers-5.0.0-25-generic:amd64 (5.0.0-25.26~18.04.1), libetonyek-0.1-1:amd64 (0.1.7-3), linux-modules-5.0.0-23-generic:amd64 (5.0.0-23.24~18.04.1), linux-modules-extra-5.0.0-25-generic:amd64 (5.0.0-25.26~18.04.1), libepubgen-0.1-1:amd64 (0.1.0-2ubuntu1), libmspub-0.1-1:amd64 (0.1.4-1), libcdr-0.1-1:amd64 (0.1.4-1build1), linux-modules-5.0.0-25-generic:amd64 (5.0.0-25.26~18.04.1), libe-book-0.1-1:amd64 (0.1.3-1), libabw-0.1-1:amd64 (0.1.2-1ubuntu1), libxmlsec1:amd64 (1.2.25-1build1), libfreehand-0.1-1:amd64 (0.1.2-2)
End-Date: 2019-09-25  21:24:47

[PCNetSpec]

Well I can see nothing in there that should have broken things.

Have you tried booting a previous kernel and seeing if that makes a difference ?